Empowering Migrant Women

'This book makes an important contribution to knowledge surrounding the theorization of agency and the limits of a rights-based approach by synthesizing Structuration Theory with the Capability Approach. The analysis importantly combines the situation in sending and receiving countries under one framework. It is a highly informative and very timely piece of research, particularly for scholars interested in the rights of migrants and non-governmental political activism for, or by, migrants.' Nicola Piper, Swansea University, UK 'The Filipina domestic worker is one of the icons of global mobility at the start of the twenty-first century... Leah Briones uses qualitative material from interviews and observations with Filipina migrants in Hong Kong and Paris to challenge the framing of these women as either victors or victims.' Gender & Development 'Empowering Migrant Women would be a wonderful addition to courses in gender and women's studies, migration studies, labor studies, global studies, and development studies.' Journal of International Women's Studies 'This book is a spirited contribution to scholarship on gender and migration, feminist development studies and labour studies... Empowering Migrant Women is a thoughtful contribution and an excellent addition to courses on gender and women’s studies, globalisation, labour studies, development studies and migration.' Feminist Review